Obama to Make Landmark Presidential Trip to Father's Homeland, Kenya

Barack Obama will make a long-awaited trip to Kenya later this year, visiting his father's homeland for the first time since becoming US president six years ago, the White House said Monday.

During the long-promised visit this July, Obama will attend a Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the east African nation, a statement said.

Obama has visited Africa four times since becoming president, but has not visited the country where he still has relatives.

For much of Obama's presidency, Kenya's leaders have been under a cloud of prosecution by the International Criminal Court.

Kenyatta was indicted over the country's 2007-08 post-election violence, the worst since it won independen